Preparation for treating the skin



Patented Oct. 8, 1929 PREPARATION FOR TREATI1\TG THE SKIN No Drawing.

My invention relates to preparations for treatment of the skin, and my principal object is to provide compositions of this character having cleansing and emollient proper- 5 ties, and producing wholesome effects, and also having ingredients not heretofore used in such preparations which add medicinal, nourishing and soothing properties thereto.

My objectis accomplished by the incorporation of extracts of celery in preparations for the skin, and particularly by provision of a soap in which celery extracts are incorporated.

The advantages of celery as a dietary article are well known. It is my purpose to produce commodities for external use that will provide for the skin and adjacent elements the healthful properties of celery with which I may invest such commodities.

I suggest celery primarily as a source of ingredients for soap, as an example of the means of providing the valuable constituents in convenient form for external application, and also because a soap in which celery extracts are constituents has other desirable characteristics that will be mentioned.

In the manufacture of my improved soap I provide the following ingredients, substantially in the proportions named:

Pounds Tallow 20 Lye 10 "Celery trimmings 5 The proportions may be varied, and other elements may be included, to produce modifications of the soap for different purposes, and to provide different types and grades. F or example, vegetable oils may be added and the proportions of lye or celery trimmings may be adjusted as desired or expedient, and suitable to diiferentprocesses of producing soaps. Perfume also may be added.

In compounding the celery soap which I claim, I preferably dissolve celery constituents into a mixture during the steps of saponification. I provide the celery trimmings, including the stalks, leaves and roots, which I crush in such a way as not to separate material quantities of juices, but to render Application filed May 7, 1927. Serial No. 189,741.

the fibrous substances more susceptible to the succeeding steps of extraction. The tallow is melted, preferably at a relatively low temperature, in a suitable vessel, and to the melted tallow is added a relatively weak solu tion of soda lye. The mixture is heated and stirred until the saponficiation of the mixture has been well started, and then the crushed celery material is introduced. The saponifying mixture with the celery elements is stirred while under heat until the saponification is completed and the mixture has taken on a. faint greenish tinge. I then strain the mixture, before it is allowed to cool, preferably by means of textile bags, saving the liquid portion in frames, where it is permitted to cool and harden. The resulting soap has a translucent greenish color.

The soap that is produced by this process contains the constituents of celery that are beneficial to the human system, including the oils which contribute to the pleasing smoothness of the soap, and to its soothing effect. The celery constituents are harmless.

The soap making materials need to be heated for only a short time after the introduction of crushed celery stalks, for satisfac- V tory extraction of the celery constituents. I

may, however, use a distilling process to obtainsome of theoils and other constituents, and may addthe separately extracted. oils, and other constituents, to the saponified mixture after saponification is completed, or to a liquefied mass or solution of soap otherwise provided. I may also add perfume and other desirable ingredients as is customary in soap making.

Celery trimmings, it may beadded, such as here discussed and intended for my use, are fresh, crisp and free from decay, and such trimmings are available wherever celery is received untrim'med from original shippers, and must be trimmedfor local marketing or for shipment to consumers. The trimmings would of course be available at the place of production when the celery is prepared for consumer markets at such sources, and where, likewise, the trimmings have no present value, so that the use of a relatively costly article in the manufacture of a relatively inexpensive commodity is commercially practicable, and the employment of my invention would conserve. a substantial volume of natural substance for important human use which is noW entirely lost. v What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. Asoap produced from the following ingredients in substantially the proportions named:

Pounds Tallow 20 Lye 10 Celery trimmings 1 5 2. A hard soap produced from fat, lye and celery. V In testimony whereof I affixmy signature.

NI-ELS B. JANSSENV 

